Torrential rainfall on October 12, 2025, caused severe flooding and a collapse at the Cuatro Esquinas de Caratal gold-mining site in El Callao municipality, Bolívar State, eastern Venezuela. At least 14 miners died after water inundated three vertical shafts, while two others escaped unharmed. Recovery operations were coordinated by the Operational Zones for Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis (ZOEDAN) in Bolívar State.
Heavy rainfall on the night of August 17–18, 2025, caused flash flooding in Caracas, Venezuela, leaving one person dead on the old road to El Junquito.
A large landslide triggered by intense rainfall buried at least 18 homes in the communities of La Valeria and La Laguna, Fernández Feo municipality, Táchira state, Venezuela, between July 10 and 11, 2025. 295 families were affected across the region, with authorities declaring a geological and humanitarian emergency.
Heavy rainfall associated with tropical waves 8 and 9 caused severe floods and landslides across western Venezuela on June 24, 2025, displacing over 4 700 people and prompting a national emergency declaration. The states of Mérida, Trujillo, and Táchira were among the most affected.
Heavy rain has been affecting Venezuela over the past few days, causing severe floods and landslides and resulting in casualties and damage. Government officials confirmed 15 fatalities and 6 people missing on August 25. The worst affected states are Amazonas,…
An unusually early tropical storm has formed in the Atlantic Ocean near Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago at 21:00 UTC on June 19, 2017 and was named Bret. This is the earliest Atlantic MDR (Main Development Region) named storm since records began in 1851. The prior…
